Film Screening of Somewhere in Berlin (Irgendwo in Berlin) by Gerhard Lamprecht

Irgendwo in Berlin by Gerhard Lamprecht

Synopsis:

After World War Two, Berlin lies in ruins. For Gustav, Willi and their friends the rubble provides an adventurous, dangerous playground. Especially for Gustav, it helps pass the time, as he longs for his father’s return from a POW camp. One day a stranger arrives, looking helpless and hopeless…

Gerhard Lamprecht built his reputation during the 1920s and ’30s with films like Emil and the Detectives (1931, script Billy Wilder) and socially-critical Berlin films based on the drawings of Heinrich Zille. In Somewhere in Berlin – his first postwar film, made just months after the end of the war – he portrays the people of the shattered city with precision and psychological realism.

(Synopsis by DEFA Film Library)

Screened by FACE in conjunction with the German Screen Studies Network

Length: 1h 17min – followed by a panel discussion

Age: 12+

German with English Subtitles

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